ideas are cheap
as are microbes
entities entitled to be ignored
expensive when dismissed
festering or withering alike
said to influence
thoughts, emotion
perhaps cognition,
behavior, interaction
who imagines consciousness
they house complex ecosystems
Intricate communities
astonishing architectures
hidden lines of communication
blushed upon depths of relations
they are the gods of the gut
the piping that connects us
the channels of chatter
are housing life as we speak
as we almost psychotically claim as deny
as datapoints unmeasured
inferred speculatively
the gem of a germ
convoluted as with ideas
bugs battering with bother
To some things,
they are hallucination
as a math menace
perhaps different from
adding one and one
claiming four
In the flesh though
“it’s what you know
for sure that just ain’t so”
that makes the authoritative
world of microbes and ideas
go round
—animasuri’24
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triggers
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